Hasty poll won’t be free or fair

The latest Ipsos poll conducted a month ago points to over 49% of voters still going to vote for the ruling party.

Lines at the voting station in Saulsville in Atteridgeville, Tshwane. Picture: Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius

And for those most eager to have this election – the Democratic Alliance – only 18% of those polled indicated they would vote for them. Its biggest mistake was approaching the Constitutional Court instead of using parliament to get the poll postponed. In the 2016 local government elections, the IEC was in the embarrassing situation of marked ballot papers being discovered outside an election venue in the very closely contested Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality.

The DA’s eagerness to push ahead with the poll could be based on the miscalculated notion that the ruling party’s lack of preparedness would somehow translate into an election result advantage for themselves.

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